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Latest Fact-Checks By Derek Tsang

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 15, 2014 a post on InfoWars.com:
"The U.S. State Department has ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for Ebola, prompting concerns that the federal government is anticipating the rapid spread" of the virus.
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 19, 2014
Julie Pace
Julie Pace
stated on September 11, 2014 a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:
The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • September 18, 2014
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 14, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Children who witness domestic violence are "twice as likely to commit it themselves."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • September 16, 2014
Maria Cardona
Maria Cardona
stated on September 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 12, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 11, 2014 a post on Facebook:
A flight from Atlanta to Houston was canceled due to a "terrorist dry run."  
Pants on Fire!
By Derek Tsang • September 11, 2014
Bob Beckel
Bob Beckel
stated on September 1, 2014 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":
The United States has "the most number of deductions available to corporations" for the corporate income tax.
False
By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
stated on September 1, 2014 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":
The United States has "the highest corporate tax rate in the free world."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • September 9, 2014
Larry Elder
Larry Elder
stated on August 20, 2014 comments on CNN:
"If black America were a country, it’d be the 15th wealthiest nation in the world."
False
By Derek Tsang • September 2, 2014
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on August 19, 2014 comments on Fox News' "America's Newsroom":
Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.  
False
By Derek Tsang • August 21, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2014 stories:
Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.  
Pants on Fire!
By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014
Joy Reid
Joy Reid
stated on August 4, 2014 comments on her MSNBC show:
"So far, the war in Gaza has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead -- the population equivalent to 100 9/11s."  
Mostly False
By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."  
False
By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on August 2, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"So many people were critical of Secretary (John) Kerry going to Paris and talking with Hamas," because Kerry was seen as "supporting Hamas to the exclusion of the Arab League."
False
By Derek Tsang, Linda Qiu • August 4, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 comments on CNN:
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 23, 2014 comments on his show:
Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as not wanting to protect children from ... sex trafficking."    
Mostly False
By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Jamie Weinstein
Jamie Weinstein
stated on July 18, 2014 comments on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The states that are doing "better" are the ones that have no state income tax.  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • July 28, 2014
Rula Jebreal
Rula Jebreal
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on MSNBC:
"Ninety percent" of people living in Gaza "don’t have access even to water."  
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 24, 2014
Stu Burguiere
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program:
There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
stated on July 9, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Ed Show":
"Teenage births cost Texas taxpayers $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010 alone."  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • July 15, 2014
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 comments on CNN:
"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."
Mostly True
By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014